US Department of Justice charges Huawei with conspiracy to steal trade secrets

[Polycount]

In a nutshell: The US government is notoriously mistrustful of Chinese corporations, particularly those involved in the telecommunications industry, like Huawei or ZTE. We're seeing further evidence of that today: the US Justice Department has charged Huawei and two of its US-based subsidiaries with multiple counts of conspiracy to commit racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade secrets, among other things.

This news comes straight from the horse's mouth -- the DOJ published a press release discussing its decision today. The alleged Huawei subsidiaries impacted by this investigation include Huawei Device Co. Ltd., Huawei Device USA Inc. Futurewei Technologies Inc., and Skycom Tech Co. Ltd.

Huawei's CFO, Wanzhou Meng, is also being directly targeted by the DOJ. The organization believes Huawei and its subsidiaries have been conducting a "decades-long" effort to "misappropriate" intellectual property from "six" unknown US tech companies, in an effort to grow their own business. Some of the property in question allegedly includes trade secret information, "copyrighted works" like source code and user manuals, and more.

Huawei, the DOJ alleges, accomplished this misappropriation by entering into confidentiality agreements with US companies, and then breaking them later on when it became profitable to do so.

If that wasn't bad enough for Huawei, the tech company is also under fire for allegedly becoming "involved" in business projects within countries suffering sanctions from the US, EU, and UN, such as Iran and North Korea.

The DOJ's investigation is ongoing, so we're not sure when (or if) this case will go to trial. However, we'll keep you updated over the coming months if any new information comes to light.

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[Evernessince]

I'd be inclined to believe that Huawei is capable of doing this. Under this administration, I'd definitely want to see the proof first though.

 

[psycros]

Huawei's employees and cronies have been busted repeatedly in several countries for stealing IP. China's economy is built on stolen tech and everyone knows it. Back when all the Chinese factories were pumping out units for western companies Wall Street didn't care. Smaller manufacturers would happily buy cheap Chinese components that were somehow virtually identical to those used in the products of their established competitors. Now that China, just like Japan before them, has created their own brands to sell all this "borrowed" tech, Wall Street cares..and therefore the government has to care.

 

[Hexic]

100% possible, 95% probable. From someone who has worked in the defense industry, it’s beyond blatant that Chinese companies working for the State have been at this for literal decades.

It was always fun being at defense trade shows and these Chinese “students” from UCLA, CalTech, etc. would come up to every major DC table (Raytheon, NG, GD, BAE, Lockheed, etc.) and take hundreds of photos of the hardware, any open concept designs, the employees (asking for “selfies”), our badges, everything.

And then when one of my buddies took a camera to one of these events and got into a group of the particularly hard-scouting groups and began to obviously take photos of THEM, they literally RAN out of the expo. We didn’t see them again.

In other news, it has been confirmed that the Earth is round, the sky is blue, and water is wet.

 

[dangh]

Eu doesnt have too much sanctions on Iran, and actually protect eu companies who trade with Iran against US repercussions.

 

[rdesm]

Huawei was still a little-known Chinese manufacturer of communications equipment in 2009, when Nortel was in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings. Only later would Nortel’s former security adviser accuse Huawei of benefiting from years of Chinese hacking into the Canadian company’s systems and stealing confidential information.

But sometime in Nortel’s final chapter, Huawei offered to take it over, the Chinese company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, told The Globe and Mail in an interview.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/wor...gfei-denies-involvement-with-nortel-collapse/

 

[David Belkin]

Huawei's employees and cronies have been busted repeatedly in several countries for stealing IP. China's economy is built on stolen tech and everyone knows it. Back when all the Chinese factories were pumping out units for western companies Wall Street didn't care. Smaller manufacturers would happily buy cheap Chinese components that were somehow virtually identical to those used in the products of their established competitors. Now that China, just like Japan before them, has created their own brands to sell all this "borrowed" tech, Wall Street cares..and therefore the government has to care.

" China's economy is built on stolen tech....."
US is built on genocide of indigenous people and African slave labor, the world, including you, know this.
As for US accusing everyone of wrong doing, so did the US accuse Iraq of having WMDs, and oh yes, everyone also knows this and was reported by the mainstream media.
US should be the last country to point fingers and accuse others.

 

[Impudicus]

Did they steal the idea of secret backdoor access for government agencies from someone?

 

[Hexic]

" China's economy is built on stolen tech....."
US is built on genocide of indigenous people and African slave labor, the world, including you, know this.
As for US accusing everyone of wrong doing, so did the US accuse Iraq of having WMDs, and oh yes, everyone also knows this and was reported by the mainstream media.
US should be the last country to point fingers and accuse others.

So two wrongs make a right? Or, assuming your concept of conquest is accurate, the first wrong invalidates others..?

I’m confused as to how your statement has any relevance at all here.

 

[christiangeli]

Tech ban + corona virus = Total economy slowdown for china. = gross domestic product (GDP) + for USA, Welcome to a new war era !